Could paying attention to the Vatican regularly become a spiritual practice and put the headlines you see about the church in context?

Engulfed in sorrow or distress, we may not feel his presence, but he is there nonetheless, walking through that deep dark valley and surrounding us with his love.

“For Jesus, it wasn’t about taking the right stand on issues. It was about standing in the right place.”

While murders have decreased since 2015-2016, when El Salvador had the world's highest murder rate, disappearances have increased, and the murder rate remains among the worst in the world.

The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has rejected an appeal by the now-former Archbishop Anthony S. Apuron of Agana, Guam, upholding its judgment of finding him guilty of abuse against minors.

For high school seniors, existential angst about what schools they will get into, how much aid they will receive and how much debt they will need to take on to get a degree has become a national rite of passage.

The event that takes place in “The Devil’s Doorway,” a horror film from the Irish director Aislinn Clarke, may or may not be a miracle—but it exposes a truth about who we are, we who crucified Christ.

If we truly want to be disciples of God, we must subjugate our proud selves to his will and bow down in obedience.

"History was not built in one day; history is a long process. And I think we have to put ourselves in this perspective."

Texas previously allowed state-employed clergy to accompany inmates into the room where they'd be executed, but its prison staff included only Christian and Muslim clerics.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we unpack some of our main takeaways from Pope Francis’ new apostolic exhortation on young people, “Christus Vivit.”

Archbishop Gregory has been outspoken in denouncing racism and in advocating for the pope’s pastoral vision, he is perhaps most known for his role heading the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the early 2000s.

These two overachievers needed each other, even or especially when they were not together.

Unless we remove all of the people, we will never produce a sinless church, one that pursues the good without also perpetrating some evil.

I suppose there is a line of thought in Christianity that would equate the cheap and mean with holiness, but somehow Catholicism has always found room for both Michelangelo and Mother Teresa.

On April 1st, members of the Ahmadi Muslim community traveled to Washington, D.C., to participate in its 9th annual "Day on the Hill" project, where they meet with legislators to encourage efforts to protect religious rights of minorities and to solicit support for the 2019 Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act.

The Vatican will be hosting a "spiritual retreat" on April 11-12 for the leaders of South Sudan, focusing on building confidence in the September 2018 peace agreement ending the five-year long civil war and strengthening civility and dialogue in public life.

In two recent actions, the U.S. Supreme Court revealed its death penalty decisions are hardly cut and dried.

"What God wants is fraternity among us."

Am I doing everything I can, in my own little corner, to safeguard and protect “this blessed plot, this earth, this realm?"